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Miracles: Confirming the Word
Words have little meaning, especially in places where physical needs are great. It takes the miraculous to capture the hearts of the people. In places where embracing Christianity means abuse and persecution, believers need to be sure they have accepted the real God.
Ask for miracles to confirm the truth of the Gospel, that deceptions would be shattered, and believers would be strong in their faith.
Ac 14:3 So Paul and Barnabas spent considerable time there, speaking boldly for the Lord, who confirmed the message of His grace by enabling them to do miraculous signs and wonders.
God, I proclaim that You are righteous in all Your ways and kind in all Your deeds. You set captives free, make lame walk, and raise the dead.
Hear my prayer, O God. Empower your servant
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Superwuss (5.10), Black Canyon
"If I ever did a first ascent," my friend Brandi said, "I would call it Super Wuss." After belaying Brandi for nearly an hour as she hung, battled and grunted up the red 5.6 at the Boulder Rock Club, I could see that she was probably not destined for new routing. But the name made me laugh, and I thought it deserved a home on a future first ascent.
"If I ever did a first ascent," my friend Brandi said, "I would call it Super Wuss." After belaying Brandi for nearly an hour as she hung, battled and grunted up the red 5.6 at the Boulder Rock Club, I could see that she was probably not destined for new routing. But the name made me laugh, and I thought it deserved a home on a future first ascent.
The following weekend Kevin Cochran and I blew off Boulder's hedonistic annual Halloween celebrations, and drove west over the mountains to the Black Canyon. A striking arete in the Fisherman's Gully had caught my eye, and it might be just the place for the mighty Super Wuss to come into existence.
Kevin eyed my chintzy piton hammer with suspicion, but as usual he seemed content to help me with whatever crazy scheme I'd concocted. That is, of course, if it sounded reasonable enough and he wouldn't suffer too much.
On Saturday morning, as we rambled down the gully, I commented on how much I loved waking up late to a downhill approach. No other area rivals the Black in terms of potential adventure, combined with easy approaches and sublime camping. Of course, you might regret thinking this way the next time you leave the North Rim Campground at a leisurely hour, only to find yourself entangled by bushes in The Prisoner of Your Hairdo Gully and eventually benighted on Atlantis.
Picking a handsome line of corners, Kevin and I started up casually, finding well-protected climbing and moderate terrain. Sadly, we also found some bolted anchors—bizarre, since they weren't on the belay ledges. Fortunately, within a few pitches, whatever climbers had deemed the route civilized enough for bolted belays had realized their error and rappelled.
At a midway ledge covered in grass, Kevin and I peered up into the meat of the route—a soaring blocky arete, overhanging for 300 feet. After staring at the steep, intimidating terrain, Kevin shot me a look indicating his concern that his suffering might be about to go beyond acceptable levels. I tried to allay his fears with a cliché, "Sweet, looks splitter."
As I started into the nebulous red wall above the grassy ledge, I regretted my flippant comment. Gear was sparse, and I wandered about from seam to seam, trying to look as if I was comfortable and confident; I couldn't give Kevin an excuse to bail!
Wiggling a #3 Camalot into a pod, with only two lobes engaged, I zigzagged upward, unsure of where to go. Out onto the arete proper, or back right into some promising flakes? I rocked over my left foot toward the arete, and the foothold popped. My scream probably scared Kevin more than me, but shockingly the #3 held. As I hit the end of the rope, the route's name was sealed, and now it even had a pitch name, "Flight of the Super Wuss!"
After letting my fear and embarrassment subside, I started up again, this time moving right to the flakes. I arranged an uncomfortable hanging belay, and brought Kevin up.
"Seems a bit dodgy," he said.
"No big deal, another pitch and it'll be easy to the top!"
I grabbed the rack as quickly as I could, and pushed left again toward the arete. After a few panicky moments when I could find no pro, I spotted a slot for a small cam, and bouldered left again to gain a comfortable ledge positioned beneath the less menacing side of the giant arete.
A few moderate pitches along the edge of the arete, with spectacular exposure and position, deposited us safely into a sea of thorn bushes, a painful end to a memorable climb with a good friend.
If you choose to climb Super Wuss, be warned that while it is my favorite 5.10, it's probably not the best one that I've climbed (that would be Lotus Flower Tower). Although I'm generally not prone to "first-ascentitis" (a common and serious affliction that causes many first ascentionists to see their routes as superior to all others), in this particular instance I might be guilty. Then again, Super Wuss might just be the best route in the Black—the only way to know for sure is to give it a try.
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Logistics: The Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park is located in Southwestern Colorado, with the North Rim accessed via the town of Crawford. Best seasons for climbing are late March through May, and September through November. Visit the Black Canyon National Park website for current conditions, road closures and campground status.
Beta: A double set of cams from tiny to 3.5 inches, a single 4-inch piece, and a single set of RPs and nuts should be enough to get you up most routes, including Super Wuss. The Black was the birthplace of the "rope, rack, and the shirt on your back" mantra, so most parties travel light, sacrificing a bit of comfort for speed and efficiency. Ultra-light approach shoes, a quality wind shell, and a big chalk bag with a pocket for bars and a headlamp should take the sting out of either an early-morning approach or a late-night "walk of shame" out of the gully. Super Wuss can be seen from Balance Rock Overlook, and a topo is available at the North Rim Ranger Station. It receives morning shade and afternoon sun.
Josh Wharton is one of America's top alpine climbers, is fresh off The Wave Effect, an enchainment of the Patagonian titans Desmochada, Aguja Silla and Fitz Roy (see Rock and Ice, Issue 196, for feature). He lives in Estes Park, Colorado.

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Most people are kind enough to grant their neighbors privacy. This is true whether in stacked up big cities, or squeezed together small towns. Recently, in a building I never noticed in my neighborhood, some curtains were flung open and shades rolled up. And a huge flat screen appeared, in a large window overlooking the street. And the owners are sports fanatics. At any hour of the night or day, a passer-by looking up will see the flat screen tuned to one of the various sports networks. Basketball, hockey, football, soccer, NASCAR, tennis, golf. American sports. European sports. South American sports. (These last two are mostly soccer.)
The night of Super Bowl, the window went dark. Maybe such avid fans had game tickets.
Well, Sunday night is the other Super Bowl, the Oscars. Women tend to like this sport, fashion, better than men. Men want results, the score, not the jokes, songs, and tributes. Women will watch hours of pre-game shows, post-award interviews, and days of post-game commentary on who wore what, whose hair and jewelry looked best. Just like men with Sunday night football.
Anyway, like Super Bowl, this holiday falls on a Sunday night when most of us gotta work the next morning. But we still need sustenance. Lots of suggestions for popcorn and soda this year. (At home you can drink one bigger than 16 ounces.)
Clams oreganata doesn't need all kinds of go-withs, as this is so impressive, that no one expects much else. Just a glass of bubbly.
The key here is to lightly steam the clams in a large pan of steaming water, just until they open. Keep a careful watch and don't let them continue to cook once they open or they will be tough. Shuck the clams, taking the two halves of the shell apart; set the shells aside to use in the recipe. Pour out and save any juices to use in the recipe as well.
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
1/2 red onion, finely chopped
1/4 cup panko bread crumbs
1 teaspoon chopped fresh oregano
salt, pepper
1 large roasted red pepper, from a jar, drained, patted dry, chopped
40 littleneck clams, steamed, shucked, shells reserved
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
2 lemons, cut into wedges
- Preheat broiler. Set the oven rack in the middle of the oven.
- Very gently saute together the garlic and red onion. Transfer to a bowl. Add the bread crumbs, oregano, and roasted pepper. Toss to combine. Season with salt and pepper.
- Chop the clams which were removed from the shells. Add them and any juices from the shells to the breadcrumb mixture. If the mixture does not seem moist enough, add some water, a tablespoon at a time.
- Fill the clamshells with the mixture. Place the clams on the baking sheet and sprinkle each one with the olive oil.
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In a week LUPEC Boston will be joining 10,000 revelers to converge on the Crescent City for five blissful days of libations, education, and cocktail preservation. As if that wasn't enough to make our little hearts flutter, we're thrilled to be teaming up with our LUPEC NYC brethren to host a Spirited Dinner at The Redfish Grill.
With the recent oil spill crisis in the Gulf it's now more important than ever to support the the hospitality and seafood industries of Louisiana. We'll be teaming up with the gals of LUPEC NYC to serve a spectacular dinner at the fantastic Redfish Grill on Bourbon Street. If you're heading down to Tales, we hope you'll come and join us! Check out the menu & cocktails below, which we'll be writing about and posting recipes for in the coming weeks. Details below.
We hope to see you there!
Thursday, July 22 8 p.m. – 11 p.m.
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Redfish Grill's Menu
Cocktails by Kirsten Amann and Lynnette Marrero
Aperitif: Anacaona Aperitif
Dubonnet Rouge
Combier L'Original
St. Elizabeth's allspice dram
Angostura orange bitters
brut champagne or sparkling wine
orange peel, discarded
Amuse Bouche:
Crystal marinated P& J oyster
fried crisp, served with "red-eye" mayonnaise
Amuse Bouche Cocktail: Islay Alteña
El Tesoro platinum tequila
fresh lemon juice
simple syrup
Jerry Thomas Decanter bitters
Lagavulin 16
lemon oil
First Course:
Grand Isle Shrimp and Grits
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Fino sherry
date molasses
Angostura bitters
orange zest
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Local Jumbo Lump Crabmeat Salad
lemon marinated jumbo lump crabmeat with a salad of grilled shitake mushrooms, sugar snap peas, slivered radishes and a spicy boiled peanut emulsion
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Leblon cachaça
Domaine de Canton ginger liqueur
fresh lemon juice
simple syrup
fresh ginger juice
lemon peel
Blackened Gulf Grouper
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Housing in Florida
What does it mean for a community to have housing that helps people to thrive? It means that people have access to safe, affordable, quality housing that meets their needs. It means that policies and systems are in place so that everyone is able to have access to a good home that supports their mental, physical, social and spiritual well-being. It means that homes promote health and do not predispose someone to illness. Housing is related to both health outcomes and health care costs.
What percent of homeless people are sheltered in Florida?
What this measures: The percent of the homelessness population who are staying in a shelter on a given day. This includes emergency shelters, transitional housing, or safe havens.
Why this matters: This rate can help a community understand how much more permanent housing is needed. Along with other measures, this measure can help a community manage its demand.
What this relates to: Health, housing, cost, social services.
Data source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's 2018 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress. The data reflects point-in-time estimates based on a count performed in January 2018. The sheltered homeless rate is the total sheltered homeless population divided by the total homeless population.
What percent of housing units have suboptimal conditions in Florida?
What this measures: The percentage of households that live in poor quality and/or unaffordable housing. Do they lack complete plumbing? A complete kitchen? Do they pay 30 percent or more of their income for their housing? Do they have more than 1 person per room?
Why this matters: Access to safe, affordable, dignified housing improves people's well-being. Adequate housing can protect individuals and families from harmful exposures. It can provide them with a sense of privacy, safety, stability, and control. Poor quality housing contributes to health problems such as infectious diseases, chronic diseases, injuries, and poor childhood development.
What this relates to: Well-being, equity, health, financial security.
Data source: Data were collected from the American Community Survey, table B25123. To calculate the number of substandard units, all units with one or more conditions for both owner and renter occupied units were added together. The percent of substandard units is calculated as this total divided by the sum of all owner occupied and all renter occupied units.
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What percent of household units are cost-burdened in Florida?
What this measures: The percentage of households that spend 30% or more of their income on housing. Note that this measure is broader than the condition in suboptimal housing above. This measure also includes households with zero or negative income.
Why this matters: This is a measure of housing affordability. People who spend 30% or more of their income on housing are often financially insecure. They may have difficulty coping with unexpected expenses or saving for the future. They may have fewer resources for health care, utilities, healthy food, and transportation. The stress of high housing costs has been linked with anxiety and depression.
What this relates to: Equity, financial security, health.
Data source: Percentages were calculated based on data from the American Community Survey, Table B25106. The calculation sums all housing units where housing costs comprise 30% or more of the occupants' household income, and also sums households with zero or negative income. This sum is then divided by the total number of occupied housing units to yield a percentage. For owner-occupied housing units, the costs are monthly owner costs; for renter-occupied units, the costs are gross rent.
Other Interesting Measures
• H+T affordability index (housing + transportation) (0%-100%). Source: Center for Neighborhood Technology.
• 30-day placement rate into permanent supportive housing. Source: HUD.


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Update: An Amazon spokesperson says that there is no $99 Kindle HD in the works. "It's not happening," a spokesperson told BusinessInsider. "We are already at the lowest price points possible for that hardware."
Original story: Amazon is plotting to undercut all its tablet competitors with a $99 7-inch Kindle Fire HD, according to sources speaking to TechCrunch Wednesday. The tablet will reportedly be an update from the current version offered for $199, but some specs like screen resolution and the processor make will carry over.
TechCrunch asserts that the updated tablet will still have a TI processor (the current 7-inch Kindle Fire HD uses a dual-core 1.2GHz OMAP4460 chip) and will keep the 1280×800 resolution. The $99 version would outpace the older generation of the Kindle Fire that Amazon still sells for $159.
The new Kindle Fire HD sold well through the holiday season, to the tune of 10.4 million units, according to estimates from IDC. Amazon faced increasingly stiff mid-sized tablet competition in 2012 from Google with the Nexus 7 and Apple with its iPad mini.
A $99 tablet would undercut both of these competitors, but Amazon is already selling its $159-199 tablets roughly at cost. Like Google, Amazon is trying to win financially through content, lowering the barrier to get devices in customers' hands and hoping the difference is eventually made up by purchases of apps, books, music, and movies. A new Kindle Fire would have to be designed pretty conservatively to preserve the at-cost sales. We doubt the $99 product will be the stuff of our Maylong tablet nightmares, but we've already been less than impressed with the Kindle Fire hardware since the product launched. The Kindle Fire HD didn't do much better. Amazon will either have to eat even more costs or walk a fine line between affordability and quality.


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In 1934, the United States was still in the throes of the Great Depression. The Scottsboro Boys had been locked up for more than three years. Lynchings were rampant, and many states still denied black folks the right to vote.
Ebenezer was not pleased.
"Three hundred and 11 years ago, a disconsolate group of humans who have since come to be known as the Pilgrim Fathers were facing their second winter of hunger, cold and peril," my father wrote in his column published Dec. 1, 1934. [In the age of linotype, I suppose it was customary for the Thanksgiving column to come out after Thanksgiving.] "The spring crop of corn had been withered by a long drought; the vegetable gardens had been destroyed by fire. A day of prayers was declared, which was followed by a refreshing rain. Almost simultaneously a ship loaded with friends and supplies was sighted. The Governor proclaimed a day 'for public thanksgiving.'"
My father went on to add that since that day in 1623, the United States had celebrated other days of thanksgiving in the midst of national crises:
"In the first year of his office, President Washington issued a proclamation making Nov. 26, [1789] [Typo alert! The actual column says 1879] a day of 'national thanksgiving' for the establishment of a government designed for safety and happiness. When the Civil War was slowly drawing to an end, President Lincoln set aside the last Thursday of November as a day of national thanksgiving 'for the defense against unfriendly designs without and signal victories over the enemy who is of our own household.'"
But what did Thanksgiving mean for black people in America in 1934?
"As another Thanksgiving Day approaches, can the Negro as a race really be thankful for many material blessings? . . . Even the individual materialist may have much to be thankful for – he may be in good health, his family as well, he may even have a job and everyone knows that that is much to be thankful for nowadays. Yet the Negro as a race still needs much to complete his reasons for Thanksgiving Day in this anno domini 1934. He is still the victim of ruthless exploitation by an unyielding capitalist system; he is still being denied many constitutional rights as a citizen, including the right to vote in many states; he is still being discriminated against even under the dome of the nation's capitol; he is still the victim of brutal lynchings. Nine Negro boys are nearing their fourth year of incarceration in an unsympathetic Alabama prison for a crime they did not commit, while a coterie of lawyers strive valiantly, but almost ineffectively to stave off a legal lynching of them.
"The Negro still needs sound reasons for a real honest-to-goodness Thanksgiving — his winter is still on, his 'corn is still withered' his 'ship loaded with friends and supplies' still to be sighted; his 'government . .. for safety and happiness' has not yet been established.'"
So, as Thanksgiving 2011 approaches, those of us fortunate enough to be employed, to have homes, health and abundance should be grateful. We also should continue the fight for those among us who continue to endure the chill of injustice.
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I had sent a few questions to Jundo. He asked me to post them along with his answers here. This is one of them.
Originally Posted by KaishinOn a more disturbing note, there is an almost "jihad"-like theme in some, such as the Mahaparinirvana Sutra's stating that the laity should actually take up arms against detractors of the dharma.
(in a follow-up I added): The "jihad" section is chapter five "the adamantine body" (snipping here, from http://www.zhaxizhuoma.net/DHARMA/Tripi ... ayana2.htm). I started looking closer at this after reading section on it in Paul Williams book on Mahayana philosophy. After reading again I'm not sure "protect" equates to "kill detractors" though...
"Originally Posted by Mahaparinirvana Sutra Chapter 5The Buddha addressed Kàsyapa÷, "It is because of being able to protect and uphold the true Dharma's causes and conditions that one consummates the adamantine body. Kàsyapa, I in the remote past have protected the Dharma's causes and conditions, and so now I have consummated the adamantine body that is eternally abiding and indestructible. Good son, one who protects and maintains the true Dharma, who has not received the five precepts or cultivated the majestic deportment, should carry knife, sword, bow and arrow, spear, or lance, defending and upholding the precepts of the pure monk.""
"The Buddha replied to Kàsyapa, "Good son, because of these causes and conditions, the monks, nuns, laymen, and laywomen must aid, promote, protect, and uphold the true Dharma. The reward for protecting the Dharma is vast and measureless. Good son, this is why the Dharma protecting laymen should take up blades and sticks to defend such a Dharma-keeping monk. If there are those who take and uphold the five precepts, they are not called people of the Mahàyàna.
Those who do not take the five precepts in order to defend the true Dharma, they are called Mahàyànists. The protectors of the true Dharma shall take up swords and weapons of war and act as guards for Dharma preachers."Originally Posted by JundoHi Kaishin,
I read those passages in two translations, and I believe that it is clearly speaking of ... not aggression or 'Jihad' ... but self-defense and protection of travelling monks from brigands, robbers and the like. The fact of the matter is that, at many times of Buddhism's history in India, it was quite dangerous for monks to travel on the roads. In fact, Buddhism no longer exists in India now because it was the victim of a true "Jihad" ... a holocaust at the hands of Muslim invaders that went on not for decades, but for several centuries, burning every temple and Buddhist school to the ground, killing any monk or nun or Buddhist layman who did not flee or convert to Islam. It truly makes what happened to the Jews in Europe small in scale.
Thus, I have no doubt that, at various times in its history, the rules of "not taking life" were bent to allow some degree of self-defense and protection (and such remains the majority opinion today among most Buddhist clergy I know). In fact, one factor explaining why Buddhism disappeared from India but Hinduism remained is that the Hindus were much less passive and non-violent in the face of Muslim invasion.
Gassho, J


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GULF BREEZE | A Panhandle woman has been arrested after authorities said they found the bodies of six animals in an abandoned home.
Authorities say 40-year-old Toni Phelps abandoned the home last spring because she was facing foreclosure. Santa Rosa County Sheriff's deputies found three dogs and three cats dead in the house on Tuesday. Authorities said it looked like the animals scavenged for food to survive, eating furniture cushions and whatever they could find.
Phelps faces multiple charges including causing cruel death, pain or suffering to an animal and abandonment of an animal.
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Tattoo artist's story about needy family raises thousands in gifts, cash
ROCKFORD - Inside Goldie's Tattoo parlor, beneath the decorative battle axes and knives, it was probably the pink "Princess Power" toy car that stood out the most.
It was stacked next to a red tricycle and a Disney princess bike with white training wheels. Behind them were piles of brand new clothes, board games and toys. One of the back rooms was filled with food, not just groceries or canned food, but Christmas hams and turkeys, too. There was a robot, a mini basketball hoop, a comfy Dora the Explorer chair, gas cards, gift cards, coats, backpacks. All of it, thousands of dollars worth of stuff, was brought in by the lines of people who kept coming after Blake Stokes, the shop's owner, wrote his Facebook post about the poor family he met at a gas station a week ago today.
The post went viral locally within a few hours. When a story or video goes viral online - when it explodes and is shared, viewed or read by thousands of people - it's usually as unexpected and seemingly as random as a hit song from an unknown band.
When Stokes wrote his post, he couldn't have predicted that he'd need to shut down his shop for three days to accommodate the amount of people who wanted to help. He couldn't know that people would drive from Elgin to drop off gifts. Or that a woman would walk behind his counter to give him a hug, slip him an envelope with $100 inside and walk out without leaving her name. Or that TV cameras, military members, this news organization, people he's known his entire life, would take note.
So on Christmas Eve, Stokes stood in his tattoo parlor, wondering why this post, his post, was shared by so many.
"I never expected this," he said. "A little bit of human interaction ..."
He wrote it in his back office beneath the knives and guns he keeps on the wall as decorations. He put it together throughout the day, between interruptions of work, customers and his routine.
Stokes is thin. He wears jeans and rolled up sleeves that show the tattoos that cover both of his arms. He has a tattoo across his neck and one that reaches above his left eye. He's 30 years old, a father of three, and has been tattooing for seven years. He bought Goldie's when he was 25 and recently opened up a second tattoo shop on East State Street.
Stokes is driven by a regular routine. He's gone to the same BP on Riverside Boulevard just about every morning for seven years. He grabs some Redbull from the cooler, a pack of Marlboros from behind the counter.
As he was paying Dec. 21, he saw a family behind him with bread, butter and milk. It wasn't just that the kids were under-dressed for the winter that caught his attention. They weren't wearing socks.
Normally he would just go on his way, he said. But this time he gave the clerk $20 to cover the family's bill.
Stokes' post tells how the father ran out, thanked him, and tried to give the money back. He had been laid off, but once he got a job again things would be all right.
Stokes didn't let him give it back. He saw that the family, who's name he has kept private, didn't have a car so he told them to get in and drove them home. He was struck by how polite the kids, three little girls, were.
After he dropped them off, Stokes decided it wasn't enough. And he did the uncomfortable thing - he got out and knocked on the front door.
One of the little girls answered it.
"And, oh my God, I was crushed," Stokes wrote. "There was a reason my gut instinct told me to come back to that house. I didn't know people still lived like that, it was such a big reality check for me. At that moment I realized just how much I took for granted in life."
He gave the girl $50 and ran out before the father could decline it.
Then he went to work and wrote the Facebook post asking for donations.
He expected maybe eight people would respond and he'd give one of them a free tattoo.
But Zandria DeLaney, Stokes' right hand at Goldie's Tattoo, knew it was bigger than that.
"I read the post and made him stop talking to some customers and made him give me a hug and started crying," DeLaney said. "What he doesn't understand is there are a lot of people who look up to him, who go on Facebook just to see what he's posted."
Stokes hand-picked all of his employees, who are mostly in their 20s. None of them had experience before Stokes hired them. He trained them all.
The donations came from people who probably feel more comfortable in the tattoo parlor than in a church, DeLaney said.
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On Christmas Day, Blake surprised the family he met with a big drop off.
The rest, he and his employees lined up in the basements of his two shops and at Euro Tattoo, which his friend owns. Stokes picked a few families walking into the Rockford Rescue Mission on Christmas Eve, and quietly brought them to the tattoo shops and let them pick it all until it was gone.
It took three straight days, sometimes wrapping, sorting and collecting until 2 a.m. to get the gifts in order.
It was worth it, of course, Stokes said. It's supposed to be uncomfortable.
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text: Computer attacks and data breaches are inevitable. It seems like every day a data breach occurs and the victims of the data breach suffer. Their information is stolen or posted online. The company's or businesses who had the breach go on, learn a little from the attack, and just give credit monitoring out as if nothing happened. What if you could help prevent a data breach in your organization? This is the third course in the Practical Computer Security specialization. This course looks at detection and mitigation of threats and attack vectors and discusses how to use tools and principles to protect information. By the end of the course you should be able to make suggestions on what type of detection and mitigation strategy is right for your systems or business given the known threats and attack vectors. You should be able to discuss what features you want in a firewall, or how cash registers or sensitive data systems should be secured. The project at the end of the course will allow you to apply what you have learned to argue what type of detection and mitigation strategies should have been employed by companies and businesses that have suffered a data breach.


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It was big news when Texas Instruments revealed it would finally upgrade one of its best-loved graphing calculators with a color screen next year, in large part because graphing calculators are near-stagnant pieces of technology, changing in only the tiniest increments since their introduction two decades ago. Why did TI wait so long? And after waiting so long, why now?
Graphing calculators have always been very simple machines, often featuring old Zilog Z80 or Motorola 68000 processors, a handful of kilobytes of user-accessible RAM, a 96x64 display, and a compartment for a few AAA batteries. But despite such ancient hardware profiles, math and science students and teachers have come to depend on them; a math student's best friend in the world is, arguably, his calculator.
In 1990, Texas Instruments created its first graphing calculator, dubbed the TI-81, for use by students in high school math classes. The TI-82 followed, then the TI-83, then the TI-84... today, the TI-89 Titanium is the series flagship, sporting "apps" and a USB connector. In a few months, the TI-80 line will go color with the TI-84+C Silver, which follows in the footsteps of TI's separate TI-Nspire line with color displays from last year. The TI-84+C Silver's new hardware profile includes a 320x240 16-bit color display, 3.5MB of flash ROM, and 21KB of RAM—hardly cutting edge by smartphone standards, but high-end for a traditional graphing calculator. Yet the TI-80 line endures. How?
For one thing, the constraints of the graphing calculator are key selling points. They provide something of a known quantity when it comes to doing math, especially on standardized tests, where a fully programmable smartphone with Web access would not be allowed. (TI prominently displays a "Permitted on testing" logo alongside its calculators; many of its devices are explicitly green-lighted for use with the AP and SAT standardized tests.) The need for limits makes it difficult for TI to evolve its devices even a little without upsetting the balance. As Alexis Madrigal pointed out at The Atlantic last year, it's not as if calculators need to keep pace with changing subject matter, either. "If the calculators were good enough for us 10 or 15 years ago, they are still good enough to solve the math problems," he noted.
Still, the idea of paying $50 to $150 (or more) for a single-purpose device that your smartphone can run laps around makes us cringe. TVs went color 60 years ago; we carry around color screens in our pockets now. We couldn't get that trivial feature in a simple 96x64 calculator screen until now?
Technology for technology's sake
Tysun McKay, director of communications and Web strategy at TI, told me that one of the reasons color calculators weren't a priority for the company was that educators simply weren't asking for them until recently.
"We don't want to create technology for technology's sake," McKay said. She noted that one of TI's priorities is maintaining the price of the calculator. A few years ago, teachers told the company that a color screen would be nice, but wouldn't be worth a higher purchase price, McKay said.
But the increasing ubiquity of smartphones finally played a role in pushing TI to give the TI-80 line a color screen. "If you look at the transition of your screens that used to be on a smartphone seven years ago versus the screens you see today, seeing what they can do helps [educators] explore those capabilities," she said. I asked McKay directly if TI saw the growth of smartphones as a common personal device as a threat to the graphing calculator's niche. She said the company is not worried.
"We haven't seen as much change in quite some time but it's more exciting than it is a problem to see change," McKay said. "It's letting us really think differently about 'how do we make sure students are excelling at math and science?'"
Battery life was also a concern with the new display, which takes more power. "It's no big deal if my phone dies and I miss a phone call," said McKay. "It's a pretty big deal if your calculator dies and you can't answer some questions on a quiz."
Last year, an article in the Washington Post pointed out that some classrooms were integrating tablets and smartphones into math classes rather than making students purchase dedicated calculators for around $100. One teacher even noted that students were learning math more quickly using their phones. Teachers may lose some consistency as students use different smartphone apps, but as long as each student has mastery of their app's particular method to, say, plot an equation, the classroom experience can still hold up.
Lucas Allen, who writes the graphing calculator blog TechPoweredMath and uncovered the news of the TI-84+C Silver on the Cemetech forums, had a few more guesses about the new color calculator and why it might have taken so long to develop. "I don't doubt that any of this could have been done a while ago," Allen told Ars. "I really don't think TI anticipated the excitement that a color TI-84 could produce."
"Things move very slowly in the world of education," he added, noting that sometimes department chairs in high schools or colleges need to retire before change can be effected. "Most of the leaders in the math education community have moved on from the TI-84," Allen said, to the (literally) greener pastures of the TI-Nspire line. But there's "still a very loyal camp" of TI-84 users, whether they're academics or hackers homebrewing their own versions of Portal. For them, the TI-84's incremental upgrade may be perfect—a way for things to change while, as much as possible, staying almost exactly the same.


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Last week, anti-spam organization Spamhaus became the victim of a large denial of service attack, intended to knock it offline and put an end to its spam-blocking service. By using the services of CloudFlare, a company that provides protection and acceleration of any website, Spamhaus was able to weather the storm and stay online with a minimum of service disruptions.
Since then, the attacks have grown to more than 300 Gb/s of flood traffic: a scale that's threatening to clog up the Internet's core infrastructure and make access to the rest of the Internet slow or impossible.
It now seems that the attack is being orchestrated by a Dutch hosting company called CyberBunker. CyberBunker specializes in "anything goes" hosting, using servers in a former nuclear bunker (hence the name). As long as it's not "child porn and anything related to terrorism," CyberBunker will host it. This includes sending spam.
Spamhaus blacklisted CyberBunker earlier in the month. A CyberBunker spokesman, Sven Olaf Kamphuis, told the New York Times that CyberBunker was fighting back against Spamhaus because the anti-spam organization was "abusing [its] influence."
Update: Kamphuis has written on his Facebook page that the NYT has gone for "sensational reporting" and that CyberBunker is not, in fact, responsible for the attacks.
When the attack started, on March 18, it measured around 10 Gb/s. On March 19, it hit 90 Gb/s, on March 22 it reached 120 Gb/s. This still wasn't enough to knock CloudFlare or Spamhaus offline. So the attackers escalated.
Today, CloudFlare wrote that one of the Internet's big bandwidth providers is seeing 300 gigabits per second of traffic related to this attack, making it one of the largest ever reported.
This is bad news for the Internet. 300 Gb/s is the kind of scale that threatens the core routers that join the Internet's disparate networks.
As Ars wrote last week, CloudFlare uses a technique called anycast to distribute traffic to nearby servers. This greatly diffuses the potency of DDoS attacks, by preventing the attackers from focusing their traffic on a single system on the Internet. Instead, the attack traffic all gets directed to a nearby machine—one of CloudFlare's geographically distributed mirrors. A sufficient flood of traffic could still knock one of those local mirrors offline, but the impact of that should be relatively restricted, with users throughout the rest of the world unaffected.
Once an attack has been detected, the companies that CloudFlare buys bandwidth from—known as "Tier 2" providers—can then block the traffic to prevent it from entering their networks. That doesn't stop the problem, however; it just moves it upstream.
Tier 2 providers buy their bandwidth from the small number of Tier 1 providers. Tier 1 providers work a bit differently than Tier 2. They don't buy bandwidth from anyone. Instead, they just connect to other Tier 1 providers for free. These Tier 1 providers are the high-speed backbone that joins all the Tier 2 providers together, and hence makes the Internet a single global network, rather than a bunch of separate networks.
If a Tier 1 provider fails, that risks breaking the entire Internet.
Though the Tier 2 providers are blocking the flood traffic, the Tier 1 providers are still carrying it. As the DDoS attack has grown, so too has this load. The 300 Gb/s figure came from one of these Tier 1 providers. CloudFlare says that several of the Tier 1 networks have started to become congested, particularly in Europe. This congestion can make the entire Internet slower for everyone.
This has been particularly significant in London. Dotted around the globe are a number of "Internet Exchanges" (IXs). These are places where multiple networks from different service providers connect to each other. The London Internet Exchange (LINX), through which an average of about a terabit of traffic passes each second, suffered a substantial outage on March 23. At peak time, its traffic dropped from about 1.5 Tb to around half that.
The LINX team has subsequently changed some aspects of their network configuration to make their systems more robust against this kind of large scale attack, and normal service was resumed a little over an hour after the first attack.
The fundamental problem, however, remains. The traffic is being generated primarily from DNS amplification attacks. Small requests are sent to DNS servers, generating responses from those servers that are about 50-100 times larger. The sending address of these requests are spoofed, so the DNS servers think that they originated not from the attacker's machine but from the victim's machine; accordingly, the large responses are sent to that victim, overwhelming it with traffic.
To perform these attacks, the attackers need servers that are open to anyone (and arguably misconfigured). The Open DNS Resolver Project reports that there are about 25 million of these open DNS servers, and hence 25 million servers that can be used to generate enormous quantities of traffic. Making this worse is the fact that, unlike DDoS attacks using home PCs, these DNS servers typically have fast Internet connections.
The number of open DNS resolvers is dropping—CloudFlare reported that it was down by about 30 percent in February—but they're still abundant, and as the current attacks on SpamHaus make clear, still enough to be tremendously problematic.
To guard against these attacks in future, the open DNS servers need to be reconfigured in some way (to either restrict the IP addresses that can use them, or limit the number of queries they'll respond to, or both), and networks need to be reconfigured so that they won't send traffic with spoofed sender addresses.
Both of these fixes are well-known, and the problems have long been acknowledged. However, they require coordinated action from many parties: every DNS server operator and every ISP needs to do the reconfiguration work.
As for CyberBunker, the company boasts that although "Dutch authorities and the police have made several attempts to enter the bunker by force, none of these attempts were successful." Even a Dutch SWAT team allegedly failed to get in. CyberBunker argues that it is currently engaged in a blackmail war with Spamhaus. As Internet wars go, this one is using the nuclear option, and everyone is at risk of being caught in the blast.
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When I was a kid. The Pittsburgh Courier was the place my father worked. It was one of several newspapers on the coffee table, albeit the only one that featured people who looked like me or people we knew. Later, it was the employer that issued rubber paychecks, the company that kept my ailing father on the payroll as long as it could, the source of my mother's conflicted feelings about black-owned publications. (When I called her from a pay phone in Rockefeller Plaza in 1981, breathless that I'd just landed my dream job at Essence, my mother's response was, "Will you have health insurance?")
But the Courier and the people who worked there shaped my personal and professional life far more than I would know. More importantly, it shaped the history of America, particularly in politics and sports.
The Courier was founded in 1910 by Nathaniel Harleston – a security guard at the pickle factory, H.J. Heinz Company – and several other black Americans. Around that time, African Americans were pouring into Pittsburgh from the South to take jobs in the city's booming steel mills.
Robert L. Vann, who as an undergraduate at what is now the University of Pittsburgh was the first black man to serve as editor of the university's student newspaper and later was the first black to earn a law degree from there, started out as the Courier's incorporating attorney. Shortly thereafter, however, he became its editor, its principal stockholder and its publisher. Vann was key to building the paper's readership and propelling it into its role as a national leader in national and international politics.
According to an article in Pitt Magazine, the newspaper was the "top-selling and most widely circulated newspaper for blacks nationwide in the 1930s with 14 separate editions delivered nationally every week." At one point, it also had readers in Europe, Cuba, Canada and the West Indies.
Samuel W. Black, curator of African-American collections at the Heinz History Center, where America's Best Weekly: A Century of the Pittsburgh Courier, is currently on exhibit, said the Courier was one of the first black weeklies to engage foreign correspondents. Author Joel Augustus "J.A." Rogers, for instance, traveled to Europe and other parts of the world, covering blacks in the military during the world wars and interviewing such figures as Emperor Haile Sellassi during the Italian Ethiopian war. Other reporters were hired to go undercover to report on the Ku Klux Klan.
Even as Vann built the paper's circulation to hundreds of thousands, he leveraged his legal and political skills. Before the 1932 presidential election, most African Americans leaned Republican, the party of Lincoln. But Vann urged readers to "turn Lincoln's picture to the wall," and throw their support behind the Democratic candidate, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Vann's influence significantly helped Roosevelt to win the election, and the president appointed Vann a special assistant to the U.S. attorney general. While in that role from 1933 to 1935, Vann wrote regularly to FDR urging him to establish a standing black unit in the army commanded by an African American. Vann argued that it would provide a basis for black advancement in the military.
"He had been urging Roosevelt to do this for a long time," Black said. "Two things came out of this, one was the appointment of Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. and the other was the establishment of what became the Tuskegee Airmen."
According to ExplorePAHistory.com, it was not until after Vann's death in Oct. 1940 that FDR appointed Davis, Sr. to be the first African-American brigadier general in American history. And even after Vann's death the paper continued its legacy of advocacy. "In the spirit of its deceased editor, the Courier, in the same issue that it ran Vann's obituary, editorialized that the elevation of Davis and two other African Americans in the Roosevelt administration was 'too little and too late.'"
Ultimately, though, Davis, Sr.'s son, Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. would command the legendary all-black flying unit.
During a visit to the Heinz history center last fall, Black offered a fact-filled history of the Courier from its founding to its current iteration as the New Pittsburgh Courier. My primary interest was in the years leading up to and during my father's tenure as a printer there.
Here are some highlights:
Dorie Miller Gets His Due.
According to Black, it was the Courier that was responsible shining a spotlight on Dorie Miller. An African American cook in the U. S. Navy who rescued wounded soldiers during the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Miller also took up arms against the Japanese, even though he had no weapons training.
"It was actually the Pittsburgh Courier that made Dorie Miller's name famous," Black said, noting that after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the War Department filed reports on Miller's heroics, but never made them public. "In press conferences they mentioned some of the white people, but they never mentioned Miller. The Courier decided to read the report, and it was the Courier who first started talking about Dorie Miller, which forced the Navy to honor him."
In 1942, Miller was given the Navy Cross, the third highest honor for the Navy at that time, which Black says was a direct result of the Courier's coverage.
The Double V Campaign
Shortly after the United States entered World War II, The Courier launched The Double V Campaign, under the theme of "Democracy: Victory at Home, Victory Abroad." The campaign's message was that while blacks were patriotic in their support of the war, they should have full rights on American soil.
When the Courier came out with the Double V Campaign, Black says, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover wanted to charge the paper with sedition, accusing it of undermining the war effort.
"The Courier was very open with the FBI and challenged them to find anyone who would say that they were against the war effort because of the Double V Campaign," Black said, adding that the paper argued that the campaign was in fact an effort to recruit black support for the war. Black said the FBI interviewed everybody on the paper's staff. "The FBI never really backed down, but they at least stopped posting agents outside the Courier offices."
The Integration of Sports
The Courier played a significant role in the careers of boxing's Joe Louis and baseball's Jackie Robinson and the integration of the national football league. "I tell people that Joe Louis was in Pittsburgh so often he could have said Pittsburgh was his home and not Detroit. He had friends here, he partied here. The newspaper pretty much took care of him here in Pittsburgh,"Black said
Courier sportswriter and editor Wendell Smith is credited with helping to pave the way for Jackie Robinson's Major League baseball career. According to Black, as far back as the 1920s, the Courier's sports editors advocated for the integration of baseball, even appealing to, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, its legendary commissioner. But it would take another quarter-century of advocacy and behind-the-scenes negotiation before their efforts bore fruit. Key to this effort was the Courier's Smith, who arranged for secret tryouts of Robinson and other Negro League players with the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Boston Red Sox and the Brooklyn Dodgers. Once Robinson signed on with the Dodgers, the Courier paid for Smith to travel with him in the early, racially charged years.
"Smith was his roommate because no other player would room with him," Black said. "Plus, in a lot of the cities they went to, he couldn't stay in the same hotel. So Wendell Smith would make all his arrangements – it's easier for Smith to do it than some white guy. So he had to find a boarding house for him in the black community or a hotel. Black says Smith also became Robinson's sounding board. "After all he went through, he had to vent, and it was Smith who heard all that."
Black also tells stories about the Courier's role in the development of black football players beginning in the 1920s and ultimately the integration of a professional football league. The paper's sports editors scouted out talent at black colleges and brought them to the attention of the professional leagues.
Just Ordinary Neighbors
Many of the key figures featured in the Courier exhibit were people I thought of as ordinary neighbors. For instance, William G. Nunn, a Courier managing editor from the 1920 – 60s, and his son Bill Nunn, a sportswriter and editor for the paper the 40s – 60s were simply the grandfather and father of our schoolmate "Bubby," better known as actor Bill Nunn III. P. L. Prattis, another long-time editor of the paper, was simply the father of my first piano teacher, Patricia.
While some, like the Nunn's, had fairly long tenures at the paper, many started their careers there as young copy boys, clerks and secretaries before going back to school for advanced degrees and second careers. Mrs. Edna McKenzie, who by the time I remember her was a mother and teacher, had been a fearless reporter, one of the first females on the paper to abandon the Courier's "society pages" to expose racially restrictive housing covenants, bias in hiring and accommodations, and lynchings. In her obituary in 2005, the Pittsburgh Pos- Gazette wrote: "She braved violence and intimidation. Her weapons: a tough spirit, a smile and a pen."
So, where does my father fit in to all this? That is what I'm exploring. He came to the Courier in the mid-40s and worked as a printer there for nearly 20 years. I have often wondered why he would leave a culturally rich environment like Harlem for a small steel town. Or why he would the New York Age, where he had his own dedicated column, to work in the Courier's composing room.
To be sure, the Courier began to decline in the early 60s when it was sold to S.B Fuller, a successful cosmetics manufacturer from Chicago who had less success in the business of journalism. (According to Answers.com, Fuller also became a major shareholder of the New York Age, which began its decline in the early 60s as well.) But in the mid 40s, when my father went to work there the Courier was the gold standard of black newspapers. I understand why he would want to be a part of it.
Note: In addition to America's Best Weekly: A Century of the Pittsburgh Courier, at the Heinz History Center, there also is an exhibit of the photographs of legendary Courier photographer Teenie Harris at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Art. Teenie Harris, Photographer: An American Story will be on exhibit through April.


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Researchers in Uppsala, Sweden, accidentally left a reaction running over the weekend and ended up solving a century-old chemistry problem. Their work has led to the development of new material, dubbed Upsalite, with remarkable water-binding properties. Upsalite promises to find applications in everything from humidity control at home to chemical manufacturing in industry.
Maria Strømme and colleagues at Uppsala University, whose work appears in the journal PLoS one, have modified a procedure dating back to 1908 to make a powdered and dry form of magnesium carbonate (MgCO3). The reaction ingredients are all cheaply available: magnesium oxide (MgO) and carbon dioxide (CO2), dissolved in methanol, a common industrial solvent. The result is pure, dry MgCO3.
Dry in this case means very dry. In the chemical sense, it means void of almost any water molecules at all.
Crystalline forms of dry MgCO3, which lack the structure needed to absorb water, are readily synthesized at high temperatures (over 100°C). As early as 1820, people started to search for lower-temperature routes to make dry MgCO3, but none have successfully yielded pure product until now. This is why Upsalite has been described as an "impossible material."
The key modification was to increase the pressure of CO2 to three times that of normal atmospheric pressure, rather than simply bubbling the gas through a mixture of MgO in methanol. When one mixture was accidentally allowed to react over a long weekend, researchers came back to find a gel. It turns out the gel was formed because methanol molecules had been trapped within the material. When heated to 70°C, which is above the boiling point of methanol, the gel "solidifies and collapses into a white and coarse powder." Analysis confirmed that the product was just what chemists had been trying to make for more than 100 years—a dry, powdered form of MgCO3.
Upsalite has impressive properties as a desiccant, absorbing water better than the much more expensive materials that are currently used (called zeolites). Most of the absorbed water is retained when Upsalite is transferred from a humid to a very dry environment. The dry form can be regenerated by heating to 95 °C. By contrast, most zeolites need to be heated to over 150 °C in order to dry them. Not only is Upsalite easy to make and reuse, but it is also non toxic to humans, which makes it suitable for use in humidity control indoors.
The impressive drying property stems from the very large internal surface area of Upsalite. MgCO3 is a common mineral that occurs in a variety of forms, most of which have water bound to their surface and are crystalline. By contrast, Upsalite has no water integrated into its structure and is not crystalline. Instead, it is mesoporous—a structure with pores that are a million times smaller than the width of a human hair—which provides it with a much greater surface area.
The past 20 years have seen a surge of interest in mesoporous materials such as zeolites and carbon nanotubes due to their ability to selectively absorb small molecules, which may enable applications in drug delivery, pollution removal, and the development of new catalysts for chemical reactions. Recognizing these prospects, the researchers have founded a spin-out company called Disruptive Materials to commercialize and apply Upsalite.
PLoS one, 2013. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068486.
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SALINA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Wesleyan University in Salina has a new president.
The university announced Sunday that it has chosen Matthew Thompson, a vice president a Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Fla., to lead the school.
Thompson will begin his duties April 15. He replaces Fletcher Lamkin, who resigned last June.
The Salina Journal reports the university's board of trustees chose Thompson unanimously from three finalists.
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — A man accused of killing a Syracuse woman and raping her 10-year-old daughter during a carjacking was beaten and suffered a broken nose on his first day in jail, authorities said.
David Renz had a swollen face and tissues stuffed up both nostrils when he appeared in federal court Friday to face a probation violation charge.
"I have a broken nose," he told his lawyer, according to The Post-Standard in Syracuse (http://bit.ly/15b7NLd).
His attorneys, James Greenwald and Kenneth Moynihan, said Renz was assaulted by other inmates at the Onondaga County Justice Center, where he was taken following his arrest Thursday night.
Sheriff Kevin Walsh told the newspaper he was looking into why Renz was put into a holding area with other prisoners — not the usual practice in holding someone facing such accusations.
Walsh said Renz has been segregated from other prisoners and is being watched around the clock.
"We're dealing with a man who is innocent until proven guilty," he said. "He's got to be protected."
Renz was arraigned Friday morning at a court in East Syracuse on charges that he abducted the mother and daughter as they left a gymnastics class in the Syracuse suburb of Clay.
Police said Renz raped the girl and stabbed the mother to death before fleeing into some woods. The 10-year-old girl escaped and was found by a passing motorist, who dialed 911. Renz was captured a short time later.
At the time of the attack, Renz was awaiting trial on federal child pornography charges and was supposed to be wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet tracking his whereabouts.
Authorities said they believe Renz cut the device off before the attack. Tampering attempts with those devices are supposed to sound an alarm. Probation officials are investigating what went wrong, said Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney John Duncan.
The Associated Press generally doesn't publish information that could identify potential sex crime victims and isn't naming the slain woman to protect the girl's identity.
Information from: The Post-Standard, http://www.syracuse.com


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Pepsi is pairing singers and filmmakers to release a visual album that celebrates soccer during the World Cup.
Spike Lee, Timbaland, Idris Elba and Kelly Rowland are some of the artists whose work is featured on the Pepsi-curated album, "Beats of the Beautiful Game," to be released June 10. The soda company announced Monday its album will be a collection of 11 anthem-like songs and short films.
"What I love about this is how creative it is," said Rowland, whose song "The Game" will have a video directed by Lee. "It's a project with a whole bunch of different artists being able to do different songs. I'm excited about being a part of something like this."
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The Janelle Monae track, "Heroes," was the first single to debut in April. The album will be released through Capitol Music Group's independent label, Caroline.
Each week, a new track and short film will be released from the album starting May 20.
Pepsi is looking to gain global attention in a battle with Coca-Cola, which is the main sponsor for the World Cup that kicks off June 12 in Brazil. The launch of the visual album is another attempt to build its brand with major figures without mentioning the event, which occurs every four years.
"To be honest, it'll be a great marketing tool for Pepsi," Lee said. "There's no reason I'd try to deny that."
Pepsi recently began a campaign that included soccer's top stars such as Argentine forward Lionel Messi, English midfielder Jack Wilshere, Spanish defender Sergio Ramos and Belgian defender Vincent Kompany.
The new album also features rising British singer Rita Ora and Elba will direct a video for the song "Unstoppable" from the DJ-producer R3hab and singer Eva Simons, both Dutch-based acts.
The performers are not expected to appear in the short films, but Lee, – who is filming in Brazil – promises to include Rowland somehow.
"I love the idea, but I got to sneak a picture in there somewhere," the director said with a chuckle. "Somewhere she has to appear. She'll be lip syncing, but she'll be in there. I promise you."


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Russell Johnson, 'Gilligan' professor, has died
NEW YORK (AP) — The actor who played "The Professor" on "Gilligan's Island," Russell Johnson, has died.
His agent, Mike Eisenstadt, says Johnson died Thursday morning at his home in Washington State of natural causes. He was 89.
Johnson was a busy but little-known character actor when he was cast in the slapstick 1960s comedy about seven people marooned on an uncharted Pacific island.
His character, high school science teacher Roy Hinkley, built generators and other gadgets out of scraps of junk found on the island. Johnson later joked that the one thing The Professor never figured out how to do was to fix the leaky boat so the group could get back to civilization.
During its three-season run on CBS, critics lambasted the show. But after its 1967 cancellation, it found generations of new fans in reruns and reunion movies.